al-Majusi

A man of al-Andalus who came to Tunis and served in the works of Sultan Abu Zakariya al-Hafsi. Ibn Khaldun relates that he pointed out that the affairs of the state were properly ordered but were not collected into a register, so it was handed to him, and he increased its revenue and set its register in order. ¹

Then the sultan employed him in the public works, an office that none but a great man among the Almohad shaykhs held. He took the emblem of the men of swords and kept horses. ¹

Ibn Khaldun says that one day he said that he had a thousand soldiers at his gate, and the sultan turned away from him and arrested him in 689 AH, and he left his trial to his enemies. ¹

The Gregorian date of the arrest (about 1290 CE) is derived from the Hijri date. ¹